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I have 20 or so text layers in a comp. Looking for how to select them all and apply effects/animations quickly. For example, I want to apply a type on preset. I tried copy and pasting, but I could only do one at a time and it put the keyframes in the wrong place on the timeline. If it's a preset, it should know to start at the beginning of the layer
If it's a preset, it should know to start at the beginning of the layer
Nope. Animation presets are always inserted at the current time - that is if they are not based on some fancy expressions that compensate. Same for copy&paste. Still, animation presets should apply to al lcurrently selected layers, so I'm not sure what you are doing or not doing to prevent it from working....
When I select the preset from the side panel, it deselects all of my layers. I then applied it to one layer to copy paste the animator to the others. Nothing. One to one worked, but to the wrong location.
Is there an expresssion that instructs multiple layers with similar content to animate at the inpoint?
I think you're going about this all wrong. This is a pretty easy process:
Create just ONE text layer, and animate it to taste.
Duplicate this layer, and change the text on the duplicated layer.
Move the duplicated layer on the timeline until its in point is at the desired point in time.
Repeat the steps above as necessary.
That's me - always thinking backwards! But I need to make a change after the fact to all of the text layers.
Not knowing what the term "change after the fact" entails, there could be two responses:
"So suck it up and get busy!"
"We'll need to know precisely what's wrong in the duplicated layers. There may be an alternate solution."
Since there are only 20 text layers -- a very small amount in a comp of even moderate complexity -- I favor the first response.
By "after the fact", I meant it is too late to plan ahead.
It's simple enough to copy and paste an animator from one clip to 20 others at once. I did that with the 'type on' text animation, but it placed all of the keyframes at the timeline marker and not the start of each layer. Nor I could not select all the text layers at once and apply the animation from the effects panel. Not sure if I should have been able to. When I dragged the effeect over to the clips, the layers were deselected.
Originally, I wanted to make one long bulleted text layer and animate each phrase to appear sequentially to a narration. Keyframed the heck out of it, but realized what a pain it would be to edit them afterwards. I suppose there is an expression, but I don't know what exactly I would pickwhip to.
How tough can it be to lasso the keyframes on each layer and move them to the times desired? That's all it takes!
So suck it up and get busy!
So what if you made a mistake? I bet you don't make it again.
You are overthinking this and trying to be overly efficient/ smart about the matter. 20 layers? That's kindergarten stuff that takes 5 minutes even if you need to re-create everything from scratch. I'd only be worried if I had to do this for hundreds of layers. Sure, everything can be automated using expressions just as well, but you need to provide much more info how you want it to work then. This could be as simple as something with thisComp.layer("XYZ").position.valueAtTime(time-inPoint), if all the layers have the same duration and keyframes and need to have the same motion just offset in time, on the otehr hand it could be infinitely more complex.
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It's not just altruism that's driving these business titans. Their plans will help the bottom line. Take the solar systems the Patriots, Giants, Jets, Redskins, and others are installing. About a year and a half ago, David Crane, CEO of the New Jersey-based energy provider NRG (NRG), approached the NFL about converting to renewable energy. NRG, with $9 billion in revenue and a fleet of coal, gas, and nuclear power plants, says he believes that solar will be a disruptive technology. The problem, explains Crane, is that solar, which still counts for less than 1% of U.S. power production, wasn't gaining any traction. If he could get the NFL to embrace solar, he could use America's most popular sport to help spread the word. His pitch: At no capital expense to the NFL owners, NRG would install panels at their facilities. For the deal at Foxborough, Mass., one of seven NFL locales NRG is wiring, the Patriots get to hedge against rising electricity prices by locking into a long-term fixed-price contract. NRG profits from the cash flow. The utility has installed nearly a megawatt of solar panels, enough to supply 60% of the power for the stores and restaurants in the complex.
NFL games still consume lots of power and create lots of waste. But owners say solar is just a first step in a long drive toward sustainability. No word yet on harnessing the energy from the on-field tackles.
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The three games that Valve Software offers in The Orange Box might just be one the best values around right now. Today I'm going to talk about one of the three high quality games and it's the most unique of the three. Portal is the name and getting to the cake is what you want to do in the game.
You start out waking up in a very odd room whereby a toilet, radio, and a sleeping chamber is all that encompass the space. Not long after, a mysterious computer voice, GLaDOS, comes on to give you some simple instructions. The computer presides over the complex called Apeture Science. Thus begins your experience as a lab rat trapped in a unique puzzle ladened environment. Your job is to use the portal gun to navigate through a series of rooms. Starting out very simple, the game gets progressively more difficult as the complexity of the rooms increase through 19 levels of pure fun.
As Chell, the female protagonist of the game, you proceed through the level at a walking pace. There's no running involved here but you can jump and crouch. A pair of leg springs are attached to you so that you can fall long distances without taking any damage. You'll definitely experience a few levels later in the game where you will fall from a great distance and the designers of the game put the leg springs on your character to explain why you won't die when you fall. Perhaps the leg springs prohibit Chell from running but there were a few times I wish I could pull a Forrest Gump and run from one part of the level to another as pieces of the leg springs fly off in slow motion.
As for GLaDOS, the voice actress who portrays her is absolutely perfect. Ellen McLain does a superb job exhibiting such an incredible personality backed by great dialog. The way she talks to you and the computerized effects used to achieve this makes GLaDOS one of the best computer voice companions since SHODAN from System Shock 2. While GLaDOS starts out pretty reasonable, you'll enjoy her transformation into something a little more vindictive. There's some great black humor exhibited by GLaDOS and you'll both laugh and be haunted by what she says to you as you progress through the game.
You won't get to use the full power of the portal gun at first as you'll only be able to create one portal at a time but that's in part to teach you how to use the gun. Portal gives you various visual clues on how to accomplish your tasks and it's these simple little cues and the vocal instructions you receive that lets you learn how the gun will benefit you. Create two portals, walk into one, and walk out from the other side. It's a pretty simple concept. Speed is preserved between portals so if you fall from a good distance into a portal, you'll emerge at the same speed from the other portal. You'll use this strategy to build up enough speed to launch yourself over certain obstacles by using gravity to increase your speed. You can also create portals for objects to fall through. Overall it's not a complicated concept and you'll get the basics down pretty quickly through trial and error from the first few levels.
Each level consists of trying to get to the elevator to the next area by navigating through various obstacles mostly using your portals. Not all walls or floors can have portals created on them and you can see which ones are this way by the different texture appearing on them. Some levels contain energy spheres that you need to redirect to the destination to power up a platform or enables a shift in a level's wall. Others contain a life threatening substance so when you fall in you die and have to start the level again at a saved point. You'll also run into lethal turrets that have a personality of their own. You can knock these turrets over to render them harmless by dropping an object on top of them, pushing them over yourself, using a portal to drop it in another area. It's pretty funny to hear some of the comments the turrets shout out when they are disabled such as "I don't blame you." I wish these turrets where in Half-Life 2 as they have great personality and it would've been fun to carry these things around in a level hearing them talk.
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Oh, that mead making class sounds great! And candle making! My poor budget is going to be blown between this and Public Glass classes. Stop being so interesting, San Francisco.


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